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    Fallout: New Vegas | Tom Anderson is really relatable, if you confront him, at night.

    February 20, 2021

    Fallout: New Vegas | Tom Anderson is really relatable, if you confront him, at night.

    Tom Anderson is really relatable, if you confront him, at night.

    Posted: 20 Feb 2021 03:29 AM PST

    I forgot how beautiful Zion is.

    Posted: 19 Feb 2021 09:54 PM PST

    Adam Sandler is Vulpes Inculta.

    Posted: 19 Feb 2021 04:21 PM PST

    Because of depression it took me almost a year to finish my first mod (and then it took me to months to make this post lol). Thank you everyone who showed interest on my first post, it gave me the encouragement and motivation I needed to finish it :) Link to the mod on nexus in comments!

    Posted: 19 Feb 2021 06:04 PM PST

    My Watercolor Art of New Vegas

    Posted: 20 Feb 2021 05:28 AM PST

    Lemme grab snowglobe and get tf out in peace

    Posted: 19 Feb 2021 01:21 PM PST

    King of swing, Dean Domino

    Posted: 20 Feb 2021 08:08 AM PST

    The first 30 minutes of Old World Blues have been hilarious ��

    Posted: 19 Feb 2021 07:34 PM PST

    Lanius cheated because he was losing (i did not edited the video, don't know what happened)

    Posted: 20 Feb 2021 08:08 AM PST

    My cosplay of an NCR ranger. I know it’s not the best but I think it’s awesome. I love how it turned out. The helmet was from a bloody war but I just dry cleaned the jacket so that’s why it’s cleaner.

    Posted: 20 Feb 2021 07:18 AM PST

    first time screwing with 15.ai for some reason I had the urge to make Vulpes Inculta the Scout

    Posted: 20 Feb 2021 09:13 AM PST

    What happens when ya run out of ammo:

    Posted: 20 Feb 2021 08:43 AM PST

    NCR captured legion boys

    Posted: 19 Feb 2021 08:50 PM PST

    Playing New Vegas for the First Time, Eleven Years After its Release

    Posted: 20 Feb 2021 09:25 AM PST

    Like a lot of new people, I imagine, my tipping point was hbomberguy's New Vegas video. I've never liked Bethesda open world games. I've "played" a fair amount of Oblivion and Skyrim, but my time spent with them has almost exclusively been messing around with mods. Other people making fun for me. I dipped my toes in FO3 on console when the game first released but bounced off it hard, finding it dull and drab and tedious. None of the games worlds, writing, or characters grabbed me, and the gameplay sure wasn't going to keep me around either. I was content to just but the game to the side and label them "not for me." But after years and years of listening to people evangelize New Vegas, of watching people debate the virtues of NCR vs The Legion for a decade, and seeing people who's opinions I trust and understand raise the game, I finally cracked and gave New Vegas and honest shot.

    Game's good.

    EXPLORATION AND COMBAT

    I was really shocked by how much I enjoyed the combat of New Vegas. For me, it reminded me a lot of the combat of System Shock 2, my favorite game, where fights are more about resource management than the moment-to-moment violence. Balancing weapon condition, ammo types, and health supplies was a blast.

    Scrounging the Mojave for supplies was less enjoyable. Encumbrance it a bad system that doesn't feel especially well thought out. None of the stuff that really matters (ammo, stimpacks, quest items) has a carry weight, so you left picking and choosing what scraps of garbage to collect. But the crafting system is so cumbersome and tedious, with items requiring so many ingredients, that when combined with encumbrance (and the TERRIBLE UIs, even when modded), that I just didn't engage with the crafting, like at all.

    The Mojave itself, when just exploring on your own, isn't all that interesting, being a desert and all, but following the quest line though Primm, Nipton, Novac, and so on makes for a very interesting and engaging "tour," leading you to places that will lead you to other places. Which is what I was missing in the other Bethesda games, which just dump you into the world and tell you to figure it out.

    CHARACTER BUILDING AND CONVERSATION

    For most of the game, I really felt like I was playing my character and needed to role-play towards me strengths. I build for talking, because that was what was most interesting to me. Being able to talk my way through conflicts. Barter, Speech, Science, Medicine. With low combat stats, I needed to minimize violent conflict.

    Until level 31 or so. The raised level cap from the DLC had me nearly at straight 100s by the time I finished the game. I no longer felt like my character because I could just do everything well. It was a bummer to be sure, but one that mods like Jsawyer fix.

    Talking to people was easily the most compelling part of the game to me. It was incredibly rewarding to see alternative paths through quests opening up because my Courier was knowledgeable in certain areas. Being able to finish nearly every quest nonviolently because I was able to listen and communicate felt good. And it made it feel like a real, meaningful choice when I decided that violence was the correct solution, rather than just being the default way you interact with the world.

    STORY

    My approach to Primm encapsulated my approach to the whole game on my first playthrough. My initial reaction was to help Primm maintain it's independence, but the town also got run-over by a bunch of clowns with Dynamite. If a group more organized and powerful set their sights on them, they'd have no chance. So I set them up with the NCR, and sided with the NCR all through my first playthrough.

    I don't want to get too deep into the weeds of NCR vs House vs Legion (fuck the Legion, though), but it's a testament the games writing that there's a discussion to be had at all. Especially given when the game was first released, when "moral choices" were in vouge. New Vegas lets you make decisions and live with the consequences without telling you that you are doing a good or bad thing. It's up to your own moral code to decided that.

    Unless you are a Fiend. The reputation system is great, but I wish the karma system had been scrapped. While the Fiends are bad and talking to them in their vault reinforced that they needed to go, I wish the game had let me decide that on my own, like with the Legion, instead of the universe telling my that killing a Fiend was a universal, quantifiable good.

    DEAD MONEY

    I the farther away I get from Dead Money, the more I find myself liking it. At the time, I found it to be pretty tedious and punishing. I appreciate them trying something new with the game play, going for an almost survival-horror vibe, but none of the gameplay systems in New Vegas are strong enough to carry a game by themselves. The work as options, complimenting one another. So the over reliance on stealth and melee really hurt the experience.

    But whenever I think back to my favorite moments and characters. with the game, they're almost all from Dead Money. Talking Dog out of his cage, wheeling and dealing with Dead (even if being punished for passing dialogue checks is as interesting as it is frustrating), trying to communicate with Christine.

    And yes, I took the gold. Letting go to start again is a whole lot easier to do when you're rich.

    HONEST HEARTS

    I'm kind of gob-smacked by how awful Honest Hearts was. Setting aside the fact that according to Sawyer Danielle was supposed to be Asian, Honest Hearts is still a story of tribes pattered after Native Americas being led by Christian missionaries while having no agency in the events around them. Even the White-Legs are working at the behest of outsiders and not in control of their destines.

    And setting that side, the gameplay is bad. Dull fetch quests with little room for the player to express themselves outside of the last big choice. And the gear isn't that good either!

    I won't be touching this DLC again with a ten-foot pole.

    OLD WORLD BLUES

    At first, I was really digging the campy, sci-fi B-Movie esthetic. But after listening to the think tank talk for like an hour solid without saying anything, I soured on the whole thing pretty quickly. The quests are also not especially interesting and lack much in the way of player expression as well, though it's better in that regard than Honest Hearts.

    I might go back for some of he gear depending on the character, but otherwise, I'm likely to skip this one on repeat playthroughs as well. Just not enough going on if the jokes don't land.

    LONESOME ROADS

    Lonesome Road sucks, straight up. A arduous combat slog devoid of everything that made New Vegas interesting. Ulysses is a joke without a punchline. He says a lot of stuff that sounds thoughtful and interesting but in actuality he's just spouting total nonsense.

    But the biggest problem is that the game spends a couple hours rubbing the players nose in something they had no part in. I didn't do anything to Hopeville or the divide. So trying to hold me accountable for it falls totally flat, especially since there's plenty I have done with my own two hands that I could e judged for.

    At the very least, the gear is cool, and you can jump in and grab it without having to play it all the way through. Might nuke the NCR and Legion just to see, but other than that, two big thumbs down.

    CONCLUSION

    I was more than pleasantly surprised with New Vegas (minus the DLC). Do I think it's one of the best games ever made? No, or not yet, at least. But do I see why people think that? Totally, and that's way more than I expected.

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    My Courier leaving The Strip for the first time

    Posted: 19 Feb 2021 01:29 PM PST

    Bad day Razz? You look like shit.

    Posted: 19 Feb 2021 07:37 PM PST

    Is the Industrial Hand supposed to "mince" Deathclaws?

    Posted: 20 Feb 2021 08:53 AM PST

    Ok, so I always had trouble with deathclaws before, they were too fast, too tanky and too damaging. However once I picked up an Industrial Hand in Lonesome Road, they became much easier to defeat. Just holding down the attack button and staying behind the Deathclaw(s) really made it much easier to defeat them.

    Did I use suboptimal weapons this whole time or did I experience a damage bug here?

    submitted by /u/StraightOuttaOlaphis
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    Out of the Loop: can someone explain the New Vegas tax evasion videos?

    Posted: 20 Feb 2021 09:08 AM PST

    Recently I've started seeing a glut of videos on youtube edited to make it look like the singular goal of various NCR Characters is to get people to pay their taxes. I don't understand where these references are coming from, or why so many people are posting them all at the same time. Can someone help?

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    Update: She didn't make it...

    Posted: 19 Feb 2021 08:06 PM PST

    POV: You are Chet after the Courier kills all the powder gangers

    Posted: 19 Feb 2021 11:31 PM PST
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